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Re: Can't get Euphoria to run

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Sep 18, 2004
• 418 views

Tom Loffman wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi to all...I installed Euphoria and it appears as if all the files are in the
> correct
> directories. However, when I click on the Euphoria (Win) icon my my desktop I
> am taken
> to a DOS screen. No matter what I type in from that prompt I get the error
> message
> Can't open, so I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Please advise! Thank
> you,

What you are seeing is the Euphoria's prompt that one gets if they haven't
specified which program to run. It is asking you for the name of a 
Euphoria program for it to run. 

Assuming you installed Euphoria in the standard C:\EUPHORIA folder, you
could type in "c:\euphoria\demo\animal.ex" at the "file name to execute?"
prompt. That would run one of the demonstration programs that come
with Euphoria. 

Generally, you need to create a program first, using the text editor 
of your choice. There is s simple editor that comes with Euphoria. At
the "file name to execute?" prompt type in "ed". This will then ask
for the name of a file to edit. Euphoria programs generally have a
".EX" or ".EXW" file type. 

Are you new to programming or new to Euphoria? There are many people
on this forum that can help in either case.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia